“It was fun because we learned a lot of stuff that we didn’t know and I never knew a lot about the election very much, I wasn’t allowed to vote I was too young to realize like what it was about,” said Mary Japa, a sixth grade student at the Academy.

Because of the mock election, they realized why it’s important to vote.

“If we have the wrong person elected for President they can make the country different then what we always had it,” said Emma Ericson, a sixth grader.

Students nationwide voted for Hillary Clinton as the next person to take the oval office. For the last three general elections, kids in this campaign predicted the next president correctly.